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What was I thinking, returning to education at my age? I’m ridiculous. I look around at the other students. They’re so confident, with tattoos, ripped jeans, and skin-tight tops showing pert bud breasts. Their...

Dujuan and the Discovery in Hamrick’s Creek by Bruce Buchanan BLRRING!! 3:05 p.m. Another ninth grade Tuesday in the books. Teenagers flood Shelby High School’s halls. Sneakers squeak against polished tile. I stop by...

Lilith Ivanova by Nathan Poole Shannon Dear Diary. I’ve been thinking about starting this diary, wondering how I would begin. I’ve decided to go with the preceding, Dear Diary beginning. It seems fitting somehow....

Parasite by Glenis Moore It had forced its way out of her with pain and blood but now it lay mewling and waving its limbs as though distressed to be outside the nurturing confines...

The Latest in Modern Communication Technology by James Rumpel Jace Larado peeked around the corner, convinced that his heavy breathing could be heard anywhere within a twenty-mile radius. Seeing that the coast was clear,...

Dominion by D Bedell They have tasted power and grown ravenous. One It was not a clean, well-lighted place. The myth of an inviting oasis had long since floundered in the Dominion Quarters. Flickering...

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First Contact by J.D. Strunk When the blast door slid open, it was all I could do to keep from gasping. I don’t know what I’d been expecting, exactly, but it was not this:...

Wish Upon a Cloud by Neille Williams Presently, data management supervisor for Nova Enterprises, Demeter Brewster, had over two thousand client portfolios under his control. It was a relatively new position and he was...

Dough Boys by M.D. Smith IV After years of traveling in space, the colonist’s ship landed on Chronos-32, named such because it was number thirty-two of the many planets circling the giant sun in...

Assignation by J. J. Hillard To Miriam, the helm of Venia II felt claustrophobic by the end of her work shift. This ship she piloted had no viewports. All its interior surfaces were paneled...

To Take What is Best by Paul Cesarini Drunin Gaarth walked hurriedly down the corridor, his scaly tail swaying back and forth with each excited step. As he moved, motion-sensing lights lit each section...